Best Firsts Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“My first audition was the worst I have ever done, ever.”

“I have to admit that I was a little nervous when I showed up for my first official 'Wreck-It Ralph' recording session.”

Firsts Littles Nervous Officials Session Wrecks

Author:Jane Lynch

“My first love, in my head, believe it or not, was Ron Howard.”

Firsts Believe First Love

Author:Jane Lynch

“Growing up in Huntington Beach, you were either a traditional sports athlete, a skateboarder, or a surfer. I got my first skateboard when I was five and skated off and on over the years, did a little BMX racing as a kid, and then in my freshman or sophomore year I started getting a little bit more into skateboarding.”

“The first time I saw 'Sunset Boulevard' I was probably eight or nine years old, and it really struck me how it's so simply put and elegant, yet there's so much going on.”

Years Firsts Saws First Time Eight Nine Sunset Elegant Nine Years Boulevard Sunset Boulevard

Author:Jennifer Lynch

“The first thing I do when I come home is check the refrigerator for cats because I'm convinced that if one dies, my husband will hide it in there because I don't cook and so I won't see it. I do drink Cokes, though ,so technically he should hide the corpse in the oven. And now I need to start checking the oven.”

Ifs Needs Should Firsts Home Dies Drink Husband Cat Convinced Checks Cooks My Husband Coming Home Corpses Coke Refrigerators Ovens

Author:Jenny Lawson

“Writing was my first occupation, begun at age 23.”

Writing Firsts Age Occupation

Author:Johanna Lindsey

“I was involved in some of the very first meetings that created the maps that showed what would happen if you had a Category 1, 2 or 3 hurricane in New York.”

Ifs Firsts Happens New York Involved Meetings Maps Categories Hurricanes

Author:Joe Lhota

“What I learned from 9/11 that is really important, first and foremost, you have to motivate all the workers and understand that they've left their families to help clean up a pretty awful situation. Every time you have an emergency management situation, it's all about teamwork.”

Firsts Important Helping Left Situation Management Clean Workers Awful Teamwork Emergencies

Author:Joe Lhota

“The iPad was my first splurge after I got my first paychecks. I paid off the debt, and I now bring the iPad with me to auditions.”

Firsts Paid Debt Auditions Paychecks Ipads Paid Off

Author:Katie Leclerc

“I got my first job when I moved to Los Angeles. I worked at a coffee shop for five years and it was one of the best experiences I ever had. It was a bunch of actors covering shifts for each other and becoming great friends.”

Years Firsts Jobs Actors Five Becoming Moved Coffee Bunch Five Years Shops Los Angeles Covering Great Friend Coffee Shop Best Experiences Becoming Great

Author:Katie Leclerc

“The first bill that President Obama signed into law was the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. I think it says something about his priorities that the first bill he put his name on has my name on it too. As he said that day with me by his side, "Making our economy work means making sure it works for everyone."”

Thinking Firsts Mean Said Law Names Sides President Pay Economy Fairs Bills Priorities President Obama

Author:Lilly Ledbetter

“I'd say people that really inspired me at first were like, Dustin Hoffman, Jim Carrey... serious Jim Carrey though.”

People Firsts Serious Inspired

Author:Logan Lerman

“I did a commercial when I was, like, 5 or 6 years old for... what was it called?... Cabbage Patch Kids! That was the first thing I ever did. Little bit embarrassing.”

Years Firsts Littles Kids Bits Little Bit Embarrassing Patches Cabbage

Author:Logan Lerman

“Everybody just asks me 'Are you going to make Hollywood movies now?' First, I don't know. Second, I never dreamed about that; I just dreamed about making movies with Tarantino. So if I can make movies with a lot of amazing directors - yes.”

Ifs Knows Firsts I Can Asks Directors Hollywood Ask Me Tarantino Hollywood Movies

Author:Melanie Laurent

“My first playpen was a cardboard box.”

Firsts Boxes Cardboard Boxes

Author:Michael Lee-Chin

“The thing I love about vampires that I find so fascinating is that, unlike other sci-fi creations, they aren't monsters from the get-go, they're human beings first... and so what kind of human you are would dictate what kind of vampire you would be.”

Firsts Humans Kind Would Be Human Beings Creation Monsters Vampire Fascinating Sci Fi Things I Love

Author:Rachelle Lefevre

“Well, I think just the fact that you are making your first film is a huge step.”

Thinking Firsts Wells Facts Film Steps Huge

Author:Adrian Lyne

“The message of music was also the first thing what I learned from my first teacher. She was an organist too and she was very devoted to what she played, so she had a respect for every piece and she felt that she is not allowed to add something of her own.”

Firsts Felt Teacher Pieces Messages Add Devoted

Author:Kurt Masur

“Beauty and the Beast became the first animated feature ever nominated for best picture.”

Firsts Features Beast Animated Best Picture

Author:Leonard Maltin

“What do you do if you are asked to do a job, first by the Prime Minister, and then by the King? How can you refuse?”

Ifs Firsts Jobs Kings Refuse Ministers Prime Prime Minister

Author:Lord Mountbatten

“Music is my first love.”

Firsts Music Is First Love

Author:Mandy Moore

“Of poets I put Virgil first - he was greatest.”

Firsts Poet

Book:I Await the Devil's Coming: Annotated & Unexpurgated

Source: I Await the Devil's Coming: Annotated & Unexpurgated

“With BSG, sci-fi is the human experience taken beyond the envelope. When I first became involved with the project, I knew that I would be able to play a human being for many years, exploring and reflecting on issues that would impact people's lives.”

People Years Firsts Humans Play Would Be Able Human Beings Issues Taken Involved Projects Impact Sci Fi Exploring Human Experience Reflecting Envelopes Sci Fi Film

Author:Mary McDonnell

“By the first week of shooting, you know exactly where your film is heading based on the psychology of your director.”

Knows Firsts Film Psychology Week Directors Shooting Headings

Author:Jodie Foster

“Let me remind you all that the first task of American foreign policy is to reduce threats to the United States.”

Firsts States United United States Policy Tasks Let Me Threat Foreign Policy American Foreign Policy

Author:Michael Mandelbaum

“In fact a lot of them I think are absolute baloney. Those Charles Olsens and people like that. At first I was interested in seeing what they were up to, what they were doing, why they were doing it. They never moved me in the way that one is moved by true poetry.”

People Thinking Way Firsts Facts Literature Seeing Absolutes Moved Baloney

Author:Norman MacCaig

“I played a scene at the end of my first year, and that's how I was discovered.”

Years Firsts Ends Scene

Author:Olivier Martinez

“Whether you like it or not, the last few years I'd be the first one to tell you I haven't been the Pedro Martinez that I'm used to being.”

Years Firsts Lasts Used Havens You Like It

Author:Pedro Martinez

“I feel that when the reforms in UN take place and the Security Council will be expanded in the permanent membership category, India will have a place, I hope so, but first it is to be expanded.”

Feels Firsts Security India Reform Permanent Categories Council Membership Security Council

Author:Pranab Mukherjee

“We are looking at a future where to a first approximation everyone is wealthy.”

Firsts Wealthy Approximation

Author:Ralph Merkle

“The commercial broadcasters have tremendous influence in Washington, D.C., for a couple of reasons. First, they're extremely rich and they have lots of money and they have had for a long time, so they can give money to politicians, which gets their attention.”

Giving Firsts Long Reason Attention Rich Influence Couple Politician Long Time Lots Of Money Broadcasters

Author:Robert Waterman McChesney

“That was the - It was an exciting time because it was as though I was sort of tied up in a paper bag or in a gunny sack with a rope around the neck of it, and all of a sudden with the acceptance of that first book everything sort of spilled out!”

Firsts Book Acceptance Paper Exciting Necks Bags Tied Rope Tied Up Paper Bags

Author:Robert McCloskey

“The first 12-string guitar I bought was probably around 1957.”

Firsts Guitar Strings

Author:Roger McGuinn

“My training was that you fill in the canvas where it needs colour and polishing. You start with the words on the first night and keep adding bits of business.”

Needs Firsts Night Bits Training Colour Canvas

Author:Ron Moody

“I'm making the art for me first. I'm making it because these are the pictures I want to see. I'm making pictures that don't yet exist.”

Want Firsts Art

Author:Ryan McGinley

“My first influences were superhero artists.”

Firsts Artist Influence Superhero

Author:Scott McCloud

“Starting a new job is always scary, or at least for me it's always scary. It's like the first day of school.”

Firsts School Jobs Starting Scary New Job First Day Of School

Author:Sean Maher

“I had seen cancer at a more cellular level as a researcher. The first time I entered the cancer ward, my first instinct was to withdraw from what was going on - the complexity, the death. It was a very bleak time.”

Firsts Levels First Time Instinct Cancer Complexity Researchers Bleak Cellular

Author:Siddhartha Mukherjee

“It was a really fun idea to have a fashion label with my sister but I don't have an awful lot of time for it because my first love and job is to be an actress.”

Firsts Ideas Jobs Fun Fashion Actresses Awful Labels My Sister First Love

Author:Sienna Miller

“I remember in high school trying to get home from water-polo practice in time so I could see Happy Days on television when it first came on, because I was so blown away by it. It was just such a cool thing.”

Trying Firsts Home School Remember Water Practice Television High School Cool Things Blown Away Happy Day Polo Water Polo

Author:Ted McGinley

“My first album came out in 1979.”

Firsts Albums

Author:Teena Marie

“They told me that they are starting a classic label, and wanted me to be the first artist. So I signed, and am producing myself, and writing my own music, but I'm their first artist on their classic label. And I have creative control.”

Writing Firsts Wanted Artist My Own Creative Starting Labels Classic

Author:Teena Marie

“I was a fan of heavy music - first metal, then punk, then hip hop.”

Firsts Fans Hip Hop Heavy Hips Hops Metals Punk Heavy Music Metal Music Heavy Metal Music

Author:Tom Morello

“I literally integrated the small town of Libertyville, Illinois. I was the first person of color to reside within its borders.”

Firsts Persons Color Towns Borders Small Town Integrated First Person Illinois

Author:Tom Morello

“The Conversation' was the first film I edited on a flatbed machine - a KEM editing machine. I've been using Final Cut or the AVID for 12 years now, so I was interested in looking at this film and seeing if I could tell if it had been edited the old way.”

Ifs Way Years Firsts Film Cutting Seeing Conversation Machines Finals If I Could Editing Edited Old Ways Avid

Author:Walter Murch

“We all want to be 20 again and have that first sense of love.”

Want Firsts

Author:William H. Macy

“We needed to make a sound that's not gonna fit in with everything else - we wanted to make something that was completely unique and individual to us. We spent a lot of time trying to make a sound that was a One Direction sound. At first it was quite hard to do that, but I'm really happy with the sound.”

Trying Firsts Hard Wanted Individual Sound Needed Fit Unique Really Happy One Direction

Author:Zayn Malik

“I've noticed it a lot. I'm not someone who revises. It's always the first movement, it's that. It's an instinct. Either it works straight away, or it won't ever work.”

Firsts Movement Instinct

Author:Amelie Nothomb

“I wanted to be a writer first, and I struck out in the world to be a writer first, and then found stand-up as a more creative outlet, as a 3D way to be creative.”

World Way Firsts Wanted Found Creative Be Creative Outlets Creative Outlets

Author:B. J. Novak

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